lp (was "mail to microport...")

[Paul De Bra]

In article <4154 at pbhyf.PacBell.COM> kjk at pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Ken Keirnan) writes:
]In article <378 at mccc.UUCP> pjh at mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
]>
]>What about /dev/lp in V386 2.2?  Does yours work?  Mine doesn't.
]>
]
]The "/dev/lp" entry comes linked to "/dev/lp0".  Try, in turn, outputing
]a string (like "echo Hello there") to /dev/lp1 and /dev/lp2.  You may be
]suprised when one of these work (then again, maybe you won't :-)).  Then
]just link the /dev/lpx that worked to /dev/lp.  Please refer all questions
]to Microport - I don't have the answer :-).
]
This is not microport's problem at all. The AT has (at least) 3 parallel
ports: lp0, lp1 and lp2. Which one you have when you don't have all 3 depends
on your hardware. Several graphic-cards or multifunction cards which come
with a parallel port have lp1 instead of lp0 on them.

This should be explained in the microport documentation however... (i don't
know if it is, i only know about SCO, which mentions this problem)

Paul.
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